Anyone doing plain text accounting here? - eviltoast

I recently started giving plain text accounting a go. For a long time I did not do any accounting, as my income was high enough to get by perfectly fine, but recently I wanted to get a lot more control over my personal finance in order to easier achieve more long term financial goals.

I’ve only been at it for about a month now, and I started out with ledger. So far I am enjoying the concept, but have not made much out of reporting yet. But I like the idea of also building my own reporting in Python on top of existing reports, and checking out the ecosystem around this (I understand BeanCount has a large Python ecosystem, so I will probably check this out once I have some months of data).

Are there anyone here doing this? I would love to hear some perspectives about this, both good and bad, from people having used this for a long time.

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    1 year ago

    This is the exact reason I lean into wealth management tools, and likely why more credit cards, brokerage services, etc are starting to offer them as a standard feature. Being able to plug your accounts into a tool that handles all the API horrors for you is such a time save, even if the result is dealing with something admittedly half baked in most cases.